The former USDA Under Secretary of trade says wins for dairy in recent weeks could set the stage for enforcement efforts in trade deals.
Ted McKinney, now head of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, tells Brownfield a federal court protecting gruyere cheese as a generic name could crossover for other common foods Europeans want to protect, “It so vintage EU in their desire to protect and abscond with their names—that name came here decades if not centuries ago,” he says.
